Safe & Sound - by Anita Roach (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- In today's complex world, trauma's invisible impact on our people, profits, and planet is profound.
- Author(s): Anita Roach
- 346 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Human Resources & Personnel Management
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About the Book
Safe & Sound bridges the gap between strategy and humanity, offering a trauma-informed, psychosocially sound framework to build whole-human, psychologically safe workplaces where people and systems can thrive-together.
Book Synopsis
In today's complex world, trauma's invisible impact on our people, profits, and planet is profound. Trauma is not just a personal struggle-it's a workplace reality. Yet most organizations remain unaware of how unacknowledged trauma manifests daily in performance, collaboration, culture, and leadership.
Safe & Sound sets a new standard for organizational well-being-one that bridges strategy and humanity. Drawing from lived experience, systems insight, and psychosocially sound, psychologically safe methodologies, Anita Roach offers a trauma-informed framework for creating whole-human workplaces where people and institutions can truly thrive.
This is more than an HR initiative-it's a call to action for leaders, teams, and change agents ready to move beyond outdated models toward sustainable, values-aligned transformation.
Why This Book Matters Now More Than Ever- Over two-thirds of adults have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE), and nearly one-third have faced multiple-shaping their health, behavior, and workplace experience in lasting ways.
- The rising workforce demands better. Shaped by the trauma of a global pandemic, persistent instability, and digital overload, younger generations are entering the workplace expecting environments that are not just psychologically safe-but trauma-informed.
- Common workplace challenges are often misunderstood. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses are involuntary trauma patterns that often appear as disengagement, underperformance, or leadership failure-when in fact, they are unaddressed systemic signals.
Safe & Sound bridges the gap between trauma, workplace behavior, and organizational success.
✔ How trauma silently-but powerfully-shapes workplace culture, and why addressing it is essential for engagement, retention, and trust
✔ How outdated leadership norms and HR policies often perpetuate harm-and what to do instead
✔ The overlooked strengths of trauma-impacted employees-and how to unlock their potential with the right supports
✔ Practical, trauma-informed tools and frameworks for embedding whole-human values into policies, leadership, and organizational design
Who Should Read This Book?- Executives & Business Leaders building resilient, people-centered organizations
- HR Professionals & DEI Leaders seeking trauma-aware strategies that go beyond performative inclusion
- Managers & Team Leads ready to lead with more clarity, care, and accountability
- Anyone who works with humans-because trauma isn't just personal; it's organizational, and it has real business consequences
With research, story, structure, and strategic insight, Safe & Sound is a must-read for anyone ready to lead differently.
Review Quotes
"Safe & Sound provides a powerful foundation for meaningful employee well-being and organizational success. Anita masterfully weaves together why this work matters, what is necessary for trauma-informed change, and how small steps today can create lasting impact. With compelling research, brave storytelling, and fresh perspectives, she highlights an urgent yet overlooked need in our complex world. Safe & Sound offers a bold, human-centric, trauma-responsive approach that redefines workplace well-being and paves the way for a more resilient future."
-LUIS MIGUEL GALLARDO Founder & President World Happiness Foundation and Author of Happytalism
"Safe & Sound offers a much-needed and timely conversation about a trauma-informed workplace as a human-informed workplace. Grounded in personal experience and vulnerability as well as research, Anita Roach invites readers to bravely tackle taboos and reimagine work and community. This powerful call to build organizations that honor our shared humanity is a must-read for leaders, HR professionals, and anyone committed to making work a safe and empowering space for all."
-LUDMILA PRASLOVA, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, Âû Author of The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work
"This wonderful book is filled with practical insights. It will help you enhance employee well-being and build a truly human-centered organization."
-MEHMET BAHA Author of Creating Psychological Safety at Work
